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...UTEP really gave me an edge," says Emily J.Parks '93, a graduate of the program who nowteaches high school in Westwood, a Boston suburb."They teach new methods and often improve ontraditional classroom models. Other teachers [atWestwood] are really impressed...
...guys, lay off the New York jokes because it can become a very nasty situation. You wouldn't want other people coming in and saying that Boston is just another suburb of New York. With whiners like you, New Yorkers wouldn't want to be associated with Boston anyway...
...well known that Los Angeles was a formidable frontier until it was civilized by Walter O'Malley. O'Malley was one of those rare pioneers. Where others saw semiarid desert populated by Chumash Indians -- Los Angeles was then little more than a bedroom suburb of the Mojave -- he saw season attendance of three million and the elimination of rainouts. He planted groves of orange trees, dropped hints among all of his friends about the possibility of a film business, suggested the birth of an aerospace industry (Mr. Northrup to O'Malley in their now-famous meeting: "Aerospace? Explain!") and relocated...
Fenton grew up in Medfield, a suburb 30 minutes south of Boston, and graduated from Boston University before serving in the Korean...
...adolescent prewar exercises in Impressionist landscape, Boyd let his fear and yearning run with startling freedom. "Seek those images/ That constitute the Wild": Blake's exhortation was seldom better fulfilled by a young artist than it was by Boyd. In paintings like The Gargoyles, 1944, the Melbourne beach suburb of St. Kilda, where he lived, became a theater of freaks and demonic hybrids, as real in its way as Mikhail Bulgakov's fantastic Moscow, because grounded in memory. Thus the blond cripple in The Gargoyles is a fellow artist who had polio; and one of Boyd's recurrent images...